Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df0efb089d884da9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:11:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2bc2a9e31013650ef556db75d1910208 SHA-1: d27cdb1322d84245aff05d2eb2ad6fe460939e67 SHA-256: df0efb089d884da90876169ff2092fa1d6c9341994b9695449c57c2b9a20aabf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, indicating it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a vehicle for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://reparationmobile.net/userfiles/file/72585048993.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kc7q8ct4bfrkkatfedb37nd82u/62993950771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be5ea5b8196---78714264986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gunugoluvijasafopibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arisutour.com/ckupload/files/88251343798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210824_B991396599E63203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b38588e7dab---86304361661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61a2c53f727bb59725ad800f8ef101b1/642858226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faprosid.com/file/65063908965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44bf66f0a38e78b36ee3f3bcd2a94ff6/liruderisupokemadaludupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lashharmony.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jevagfm7ab5k1nenko4p2eb123/wevojumike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/javonimegutekamasirowek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110b9fbb95e2---74496785919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773d8612db0---bewazejotiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be2cb79c15a---72674202546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bc-arman.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruwefepipinujigarap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://builderall.info/userfiles/file/18555734898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8o28cd3v42peukf75htfiotnrl/74076072650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f09de2dbe09adb160a2b4e8ac5b23e3/vixir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd28d05aad---48850733883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcc06601a19f6fcd20e733ece26c356b/bejamiwemijebugeneten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nusratali.com/userfiles/files/dijezokenojadusotero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-district.org/userfiles/file/davivazedojara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813bc82ca0f---wokebipavanugata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avgdesign.com/userfiles/file/volitaxejijejumuxaxijuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=mechanical+ventilation+setting+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e139.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE139 16760 bytes
SHA-256: ff34cef523fb5ebcfc94feef8183e31e70e6045cefc9bdfdf3795f57e3217890
font_01_sfnt_off00010c6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C6D 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 6d9b7a763c394f28638262251bb92d6e3a4706c5c83b3dbd1c40a15bd167b6df
font_02_sfnt_off0001254a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1254A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1